Feng Bangning heard that Yao Hongmo had given up, and secretly laughed in his heart. The official couldn't help but be frightened. He just said a word that was neither salty nor bland, but his attitude was completely different. The two of them chatted for a few more words, Feng Bangning presented the gift list and resigned. Mr. Yao saw the gift list.
The gifts written on it are ordinary and not worth a hundred taels in total.
Although he felt unhappy, he didn't dare to be a monster anymore, so he agreed with Feng Bangning and told him that the troublemaking supervisors in the Imperial College would all be deprived of their honors and dismissed. After hearing this, Feng Bangning hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed a few more times. With a smile on his face,
This made Yao Hongmo feel angry, but he no longer dared to show it on his face.
Feng Bangning left the Imperial College and visited two business partners. When he returned to Qingliu Printing Shop, it was already dark. He was busy with the printing shop again and told the shopkeeper to be careful with the candle before he rode back to his home in Sanyuan Lane.
After returning home, the servant was busy letting him wash up. Since the housewife stayed at her hometown to take care of her parents, Feng Bangning's concubine named Jin Baoer in Xinna, Nanjing, put the meal in the inner hall. Feng Bangning sat down and asked her.
: "Is the master in the house today?"
Jin Baoer said delicately: "The master has been in the house and has not left the house. I sent dinner to the study. I also met with more than a dozen guests today." Feng Bangning hurriedly took a few mouthfuls, got up, rinsed his mouth, and went to the study.
Entering the study, I saw Feng Bao sitting behind the big case, almost invisible due to the pile of documents on the case. Two newly purchased glass oil lamps were lit in the study, and the light was like daylight.
Seeing him coming, Feng Bao nodded and said, "You sit down first, I'll finish this." After Feng Bangning changed two cups of tea, he put down his pen.
When Feng Bangning saw him standing up and feeling relaxed, he also stood up and bowed and said: "Uncle, I went to Yao Hongmo's office today. The matter with the Imperial College has been settled."
Feng Bao listened and nodded absently. Feng Bangning walked up behind him and rubbed his shoulders. Feng Bao smiled and said, "How about the bookstore's income now?"
Feng Bangning clicked his tongue and said: "My nephew never thought that this bookstore could make so much money. If I had known it, my nephew would have started working in Beijing!" He held out two fingers and said: "In three months, I can actually make a net profit of two thousand.
2. According to my nephew, if the price of the book is doubled, the number of people buying it will not be much less, so you can make more money."
After hearing this, Feng Bao smiled fondly and said: "Haha, how far have you, a frog in the well, seen? Do you know how much the six stores in the south of Rishenglong earn in one day?"
Feng Bangning tried his best to guess: "One thousand taels a day?" Feng Bao said with a smile: "At this time, I knew that there were many rich people in the Ming Dynasty. I did the math, and in February it was already 4,500 taels a day.
Not many people know about this. I estimate that by June and July of this year, it will be very difficult for these six stores to make 10,000 taels a day."
Feng Bangning was stunned and shouted: "In this year, wouldn't it be more than three million?" Feng Bao nodded in agreement. Then he shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Who would have thought of this?"
After hearing this, Feng Bangning put his small bookstore with a daily income of forty taels into the cold palace. He asked with a shy face: "How about you give your nephew a 'Rishenglong' store manager?"
Feng Bao smiled and shook his head: "You can't manage that kind of store. I almost died from exhaustion just looking for these shopkeepers."
After these few months of experience, Feng Bangning felt that he was not bad at anything. After hearing Feng Bao's words, he felt dissatisfied.
After retiring and returning to the bedroom, Feng Bangning said to his concubine Jin Baoer: "I have been tired these past few days. If it is sunny tomorrow, I will take you to Rishenglong for a stroll and buy some noodles to treat you." Jin Baoer was overjoyed after hearing this and prayed at the same time.
The weather was fine, and while Feng Bangning was using some tricks, he was so busy that he broke into a smelly sweat.
.......
Rishenglong's name is well-known, but Feng Bangning only heard about it and never went there because he was too busy. After asking the housekeeper, he found out that the store is not far from Qingliu Bookstore, on a section of the street between Jiezi Bridge and Neiqiao, behind the
One street away is Nanjing Martial Arts School, and two streets across from it is Yingtianfu Yamen, which is the most prosperous area in Nanjing at this time.
Feng Bangning arranged for two people to carry the sedan early in the morning and let Jin Bao'er sit in it. He took his personal entourage, led a horse, walked as a carriage, and came towards the rising sun.
Both ends of the street in front of Rishenglongmen have been blocked by Shangyuan County with stone piles. Neither sedans nor horses are allowed to pass. Jin Baoer got off the sedan and saw horse-tying stones lined up on both sides of the street. Everyone who came to go shopping had their carriages.
The mule cart is tied here and is taken care of by servants. On the street, the yamen servants carry sticks and iron rulers and move around in groups.
At this time, the time was just around the corner, and the long street in front of Sunrise was already full of people. Businessmen and scholars who had passed by the Qinhuai River last night came in droves with their respective interests.
Jin Baoer was afraid of seeing an acquaintance, so she quickly put down the gauze on her head to cover her face. Feng Bangning chuckled next to him, and Jin Baoer was so angry that he twisted him twice.
Putting aside the excitement of the long street, when the two of them walked to the door of Rishenglong Store, they took a breath of cold air at the same time.
I saw that Rishenglong's store was more than sixty feet long, with a pair of gates opening a few feet apart facing the street. The building was three stories high, with carved beams and painted tiles. Not to mention it, only the glass windows that stretched from top to bottom.
It's jaw-dropping.
There was a tourist from out of town next to him. He was so frightened that he sat down on the ground and cursed: "What a fool! I insist on asking for it. I really don't want to betray it to Keke!" This made Jin Baoer burst into laughter.
Feng Bangning also smiled.
When I approached the door of one of the stores, I saw two rows of young men wearing the same color and style with narrow sleeves and narrow sleeves, and wearing Liuhe scarves on their heads to welcome guests at the door. When I saw Feng Bangning and other customers walking into the store, they all bent down.
He saluted and said, "Sir, please come inside!"
Feng Bangning stepped in, first looked up and glanced at the lobby, and saw that the bay was about four feet long, about two feet wide, and even one foot high. Compared with other low shops, it felt refreshing.
When I looked again, I saw that there was no counter inside, just a wide open space with a circle of armchairs. Some people were sitting on it. There were young men walking back and forth among the guests, with towels on their shoulders and tea trays.
Visitors wipe their faces and drink water.
A first-time visitor next to him asked: "Where are the sellers? Aren't they selling goods here?" One of the boys bowed and replied: "Sir, the goods are inside, please look up."
When Feng Bangning looked up, he saw that there was still a door on the inner wall of the room, but it was just ajar. On the doors were blue sandalwood plaques inlaid with gold. The plaques read: "Home, Life, Ladies, Jewelry, Art and Play,"
There are six "Ingenious Weapons" in total.
Feng Bangning secretly smacked his tongue. The sun was rising and the lobby was empty. There were only one line of customers, leaving all the shops in the world behind. Because my concubine served well last night, he led Jin Baoer to the ladies' door first.
When he approached, the door with the "Ms." plaque opened from the inside. A young woman stood in front of the door, wearing a purple and green pleated skirt. She smiled and bent down to salute: "My guest, please choose a woman."
Come with me." Feng Bangning and Jin Baoer were stunned.
After crossing the threshold, I was stunned again. Behind this door was not a room, but a patio. Rows of bamboos and flowers were planted inside, dividing the patio into winding corridors paved with stones. The woman led Feng Bangning
The two of them walked around among the flowers several times. When Feng Bangning heard a tinkling sound of the piano, he saw her stop and said: "Your Majesty, we are here."
Then he bent down and saluted: "Guest, please wait here. Only female guests can enter here. Do you want to wait here, or go shopping elsewhere?"
Feng Bangning was so shocked by Ri Shenglong's arrogance that he lost his temper. Hearing this, he looked at Jin Bao'er. Jin Bao'er was also here for the first time and looked at him eagerly, hoping that he would wait.
Feng Bangning said: "I'll just wait for a while." When the woman heard this, she smiled and said: "If you are paying the bill today, please tell me how much you can spend." After saying that, he took two steps back and waited.
Feng Bangning thought about it and said in a low voice: "Things here are not cheap, you can use them for fifty taels first." Jin Baoer's eyes widened with joy and he responded happily.
Seeing that Feng Bangning had finished explaining, the woman clapped her hands, and a little maid led him to sit down in an armchair blocked by screens on both sides of the corridor. There was another little maid over there serving tea. Here she led Jin Bao'er to open the door.
Went in.
After Feng Bangning sat down, he saw a small table in front of him. On one side was a collection of timely poems, and on the other side was an illustrated version of "The Generals of the Yang Family" published by his bookstore. When he looked up, he saw a piece of gauze on the rockery opposite.
Blocking a platform, there was a woman playing the piano faintly among the flowers. Only then did Feng Bangning know where the sound of the piano came from.
After waiting for half an hour, Feng Bangning was about to fall asleep to the sound of the piano. The door opened, and the woman led Jin Baoer, who was in a state of despair, out. Holding a receipt in her hand, she handed it to Feng Bangning and said: "Your Majesty, my wife will spend time together."
With fifty-one taels, you can pay and pick up the goods when you go out." Jin Baoer lowered his head and pinched the handkerchief in his hand.
Feng Bangning saw a few lines written on the receipt, which included a set of women's Suzhou embroidered underwear, four or two bottles of body lotion, and one or two bottles of perfume.
Feng Bangning squeezed his hand hard and almost broke the document. His face turned red and he said, "I want to go somewhere else to see, how do I get there?"
The woman asked him if it was his first time here. Feng Bangning responded in a low voice. The woman suggested: "Sir, it's your first time here. It's better to go to the daily necessities store first. There must be something suitable."
Seeing Feng Bangning nod, the woman led the two of them around the courtyard a few more times, stopping at a moon gate. A boy over there followed him and led Feng Bangning into another courtyard.
When the sun set in the west, Feng Bangning and Jin Baoer, male and female, seemed to have been drained of all their energy and energy as the sun rose. Feng Bangning made a full budget and brought a total of ten taels of red gold and sixty taels of pure silver.
All the money was spent. The couple had more than a dozen gold-painted cloth bags on their bodies, and they didn't have the energy to speak.
After returning home, taking a bath with scented soap, brushing his teeth with fine tooth salt and a toothbrush, Feng Bangning calmed down. When Jin Baoer was wearing women's underwear, towering into the clouds, and was serving Feng Bangning with her fragrant fragrance,
Feng Bangning gritted his teeth at first, then laughed and said: "It's worth it! It's damn worth it!"